okay so this has been bugging me since yesterday and i needed to tell someone who gets it. was flying out near the reservoir, conditions were pretty good, maybe 12mph winds, nothing crazy. had about 40% battery left and decided to do one more slow pull back over the water for a shot i wanted.

halfway through the move the aircraft just kind of... hesitated? like it almost stopped mid-air for maybe half a second and then resumed normally. no warnings on screen, no error in the flight log that i can see, return to home didnt trigger or anything. finished the flight fine, landed fine. checked the props when i got home and they all looked okay.

ive flown this thing probably 80 or 90 times and never seen that before. the only thing different was it was a bit hazy and i was flying over water which i know can mess with the optical flow sensors but i was at like 35 meters so it shouldnt have mattered. anyone experienced something like this or know what might cause a mid flight hiccup like that with no logged error

That sounds like it could have been a brief GPS signal hiccup or maybe it switched positioning modes for a split second. Over water with haze you can sometimes get weird reflections messing with the downward sensors even at higher altitudes, more than people expect. I'd pull the full flight record from DJI fly and look at the satellite count around that timestamp, sometimes that tells the story even when no error shows.

Also worth checking if there were any high power lines or structures nearby - had a similar thing happen to my Mavic 2 Pro once and I'm still not 100% sure what caused it. Never happened again. Probably would just keep flying it and keep an eye out but I totally understand the shaken feeling, those moments are no fun over water.

ive had the Air 2 do somthing similar once, turned out my SD card was almost full and it like stuttered during recording or something. probably not your issue but worth checking. glad it landed okay though, water landings are not fun to think about